Agfa Nv

Afga Nv

Rudi Lamproye

Peter Frings

Dieter Jancart

Guido Fransen

Bjorn Van Thienen

Marc Verhaegen

Alain Cormond

An inkjet printing method for manufacturing a decorative surface comprising staggered decorative laminate panels including the steps of: i) digitally dividing a first master image () into decorative laminate panel images (); ii) digitally staggering neighbouring decorative laminate panel images () over a selected staggering distance () having a value between L/2 and L/20 with L representing the length of a decorative laminate panel; iii) digitally composing a second master image () from the neighbouring staggered decorative laminate panel images (); iv) printing the second master image () with one or more inkjet inks on a substrate, wherein the substrate is a paper substrate and the one or more inkjet inks are aqueous pigmented inkjet inks printed on the substrate before or after impregnation with a thermosetting resin; or wherein the one or more inkjet inks are UV curable inkjet inks and the substrate is a thermoplastic substrate based on a material selected from the group consisting of polyvinylchloride (PVC), polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), polyethylene-terephthalate (PET) and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and combinations thereof.

Inkjet printing methods for decorative laminate panels

A method for manufacturing a personalized or customized decorative surface () having decorative laminate panels () including the steps of: segmenting a digital image of the personalized or customized decorative surface () into a plurality of decorative laminate panel images (), wherein each decorative laminate panel image () is sized to fit on a decorative laminate panel (); assigning a positioning code () to a decorative laminate panel image () for identifying its position in the digital image of the personalized or customized decorative surface (); creating a non-staggered digital layout () of the plurality of decorative laminate panel images (); inkjet printing the non-staggered digital layout () on a substrate (); heat pressing the inkjet printed substrate with a protective layer () into a decorative laminate (); dividing the decorative laminate () into decorative laminate panels (), wherein the front side of a decorative laminate panel () includes one of the plurality of inkjet printed decorative laminate panel images () and the back-side of decorative laminate panel () includes the positioning code () of the decorative laminate panel image () inkjet printed on the front side of the decorative laminate panel ().

Methods of manufacturing decorative laminate panels

Methods for manufacturing decorative laminate panels

A manufacturing method of decorated natural leather includes applying a base coat on crusted leather, inkjet printing a decorative image on the base coat using one or more pigmented inkjet inks, and applying one or more identification codes.

Decorated natural leather

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